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Simplified have now launched a new Horizontal Life Line System: KeeLine to go hand in hand with Kee Walk. KeeLine® is a wire based personal protection system for roof installation or horizontal / overhead applications on structures. Read More
Simplified have now launched a new Demarcation and Rooftop Walkway system: KeeWalk a modular walkway system that provides a level walking surface on flat, barrel and sloping roofs Read More
Simplified have launched a new product into our Fall Protection range, Kee Line
This system was designed to go hand in hand with the Kee Walk product
KeeLine® is a wire based personal protection system for roof installation or horizontal / overhead applications on structures. The system comprises an 8mm grade 316 stainless steel wire system with electro-polished brackets, detachable travellers and powder coated anchors that provide flexible, continuous protection for up to 3 users working at height. The system is ideal for use by working teams carrying out essential roof top maintenance tasks.
For more information on Kee Line go to our Kee Line pages
Kee® Walk provides a safe, anti-slip, level walking surface for anyone who needs to access a roof in the course of their work. It provides a clear demarcation route which protects the roof surface from unnecessary damage and uniformly distributes the pedestrian load across its surface.
For more information on Kee Walk go to our Kee Walk pages
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We are working on a rating systems where we talk and review the product that we are selling, this enables us to tell you from a personal perspective what works and what doesnt
first in the firing line is our range of gloves, watch this space for the results!
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Simplified Safety / General Manager
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Introducing Jeff Rowley, the Kee Safety product specialist and trainer
Here is Jeff demonstrating what Jeff does best!
Within the last few months I was asked by one of our approved installers to provide support on the placement and specification of some Ringanka EN795 Class A1 eyebolts as window cleaning anchor points in a high profile building project in the West Midlands.
On the lower floors my advice was to move the eyebolts above the windows as there was insufficient height to allow a fall to be arrested otherwise (restraint was not possible due to the windows design). Further up the buildings stairwell quite a number of eyebolts where able to be removed from the project as the windows were sealed units and so did not require window cleaning anchorage points.
The revised quote went in to the client (An Architect) and despite the advice provided the Architect asked for all windows the have the eyebolts placed underneath them for reasons of aesthetics, including the windows which had no requirement for the eyebolts.
This leaves our installer with a difficult commercial decision to make. Do they distance themselves from the project and lose what would be a valuable order (and allow a competitor to get the business anyway)? Fight their corner and not deal with the client again in the future? Proceed with the client’s instructions and issue a disclaimer to avoid future prosecution? Or should they go ahead with the clients instructions and then report the site to the HSE on completion?
What decision would you make in their situation?
Despite specialist safety companies giving advice, however good, if the client won’t or doesn’t understand the consequences of ignoring it, then it doesn’t matter how much money is spent on safety, serious accidents and deaths will keep on occurring.
Nearly one in four of the construction sites visited by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) during March failed safety checks.
Inspectors from HSE carried out checks at 2014 construction sites across Great Britain as part of an intensive inspection campaign aimed at reducing death and injury in one of Britain's most dangerous industries.
During unannounced visits, inspectors focused on refurbishment and roofing work to ensure that any work at height was being done safely and that the sites were in good order. 2414 contractors were inspected during the campaign.
A total of 691 enforcement notices were issued at 470 sites, with inspectors giving orders for work to be stopped immediately in 359 instances for either unsafe work being carried out at height or where sites lacked 'good order'.
The majority of all notices issued related to unsafe work being carried out at height.
Philip White, HSE's Chief Inspector for Construction, said:
"While it is encouraging that many small construction firms have got their act together and are giving health and safety the priority it needs, the fact that our inspectors needed to take enforcement action on almost a quarter of sites, and on a similar proportion of contractors, is a matter of serious concern.
"There are still a small number of employers or contractors who continue to put their own and other people's health and safety at risk. This is unacceptable. I want to make it clear to these operators that we will not hesitate to take action where standards of health and safety are endangering workers lives and livelihoods."
During 2008/09 there were 53 deaths in construction and 11 264 injuries. Last year, inspectors visited 1759 sites, 2145 contractors and issued 491 enforcement notices during a similar month-long initiative.
We at Simplified Safety are always on the lookout for new safety products coming out on the market, as such Kee Safety invited us to preview their new product Kee Walk, I managed to get some photos to provide a sneak peak of the new Kee Walk system, a new walkway and demarcation system for rooftops which doesn’t require any specialist equipment to adjust on site to fit most scenarios.
A Merseyside builder has been fined £1,500 after he and another man were spotted working on a pub roof in St Helens without safety equipment.
Worker balancing dangerously on pub roof
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Charles Molloy from Molloy Building Contractors after an inspector spotted the men on the roof of the Black Horse Hotel on Park Road on 18 June 2009.
St Helens Magistrates' Court heard that Mr Molloy, 64, had been hired to replace the ridge tiles on the top of the pub roof. But neither he nor the worker he employed wore harnesses, put up scaffolding or took any other safety precautions.
Mr Molloy also ignored advice he was given about the way he was working by an Environmental Health Officer from St Helens Council, a few days before HSE's visit.
Mr Molloy, of Marshalls Cross, St Helens, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 by failing to take measures to prevent workers falling.
He was ordered to pay £1,000 towards the cost of the prosecution in addition to the fine at St Helens Magistrates' Court on 9 March 2010.
HSE Inspector Sandra Tomlinson said:
"Mr Molloy apparently had little concern for his own safety, or that of those he employed, by working so precariously on a rooftop.
"When we visited the site and saw both men still working on the roof without safety equipment after previous warnings, we had no choice but to take legal action.
"Falls from height kill dozens of workers every year and seriously injure hundreds more. We will therefore continue to prosecute employers who put lives in danger."
Falls from height are the biggest single cause of workplace deaths in the UK. More information on working safely at height is available at http://www.hse.gov.uk/falls
We have written this section to provide a comprehensive list of guidelines that will aid everyone, whether you are a novice or an expert, if you are looking for any information on fall arrest harnesses you will find it there, if you think we have missed anything, let us know, we welcome your questions!
We have revamped and improved our KEE DOME Skylight protection pages, to make room for our self assembly range, this enables our customers to buy and construct their own rooftop protection solutions.
